MSBuild PSExec hangs without error while executing batch file

Question

As part of as our Team Build MSBuild script, we have a deployment batch file which I need to execute on a remote server:

<Exec Command="psexec -accepteula \\servername D:\Build_Drop\DeploySites.bat "/>

I can confirm it is not permissions or firewall: if the bat command is changed to run iisreset or calc.exe for example, the command will work.

I have tried -s and >nul flags, and also wrapping the batch file in a call to cmd. I have tried with and without quotes around the bat cmd.

All the options I have tried will work fine from the cmd line on the build server, but none will work from within the build script itself.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Adding a -i parameter to psexec seems to have worked.

Oddly, we now get the error message:

The command "psexec -accepteula \\server -i cmd /c "D:\Build_Drop\DeploySites.bat"" exited with code 5. Please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command.

But the command does actually work